> On Aug 1, 12:51 pm, Oliver Cromm <lispamat...@crommatograph.info>
> wrote:
>>> [...] Er litt auch sonst, er war in der Hauptsache
>>> ein k r a n k h a f t e s Thier: aber n i c h t das Leiden selbst war
>>> sein Problem, sondern dass die Antwort fehlte für den Schrei der Frage
>>> „w o z u leiden?“

>>> [...] He suffered also in
>>> other ways; he was in the main a diseased animal; his problem was not
>>> suffering itself, though, but the lack of an answer to that crying
>>> question, ‘Why do we suffer?’

>>> [...] Other things made him
>>> suffer too, in the main he was a sickly animal: but suffering itself
>>> was not his problem, instead, the fact that there was no answer to the
>>> question he screamed, ‘Suffering for what?’

>> The second one, overall, but there are sentences I prefer in the
>> first version, and I don't see any big issues in the first one,
>> except maybe the last sentence.
>> [...]

> [...]
> The last sentence in the second one is not very elegant at all.
> 'Crying question' is an idiomatic English expression and closer to the
> German anyway.